This might be getting superfluous, but if Earl Weaver gets a thread Stan The Man should get 2. :mad:
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/stan-musial-the-man-dies-st-louis-cardinals-at-92-01913
QuoteST. LOUIS (AP)
Stan Musial, one of baseball's greatest hitters and a Hall of Famer with the St. Louis Cardinals for more than two decades, has died. He was 92.
Stan the Man won seven National League batting titles, was a three-time MVP and helped the Cardinals capture three World Series championships in the 1940s.
The Cardinals announced Musial's death in a news release. They said he died Saturday evening at his home surrounded by family.
Musial was so revered in St. Louis, two statues of him stand outside Busch Stadium. He spent his entire 22-year career with the Cardinals and made the All-Star team 24 times - baseball held two All-Star games each summer for a few seasons.
IMO, Stan Musial is one of the most underrated ballplayers today. He wasn't very far behind DiMaggio and Williams, if at all, but he really seems to get over looked any more.
Greatest Cardinal of all time.
RIP :(
Man makes me realize that say hey kid is gonna be 82 this year.
He was The Man. RIP
Quote from: sbr on January 19, 2013, 08:14:54 PM
IMO, Stan Musial is one of the most underrated ballplayers today. He wasn't very far behind DiMaggio and Williams, if at all, but he really seems to get over looked any more.
I'm not old enough to have seen Musial play, but back when I was a little kid, I'd listen when fans in the generation ahead of me talked baseball, and back then, Musial's name always came up when they talked about the best players ever. Nowdays, he doesn't get mentioned as often. He's one of the top 20 players of all time, probably one the top 10, but I think what has happened is that he's sort of "second best" in so many ways. He's not the best outfielder in the history of the NL--that would be Mays. He's not the best player from the 1940's--that would be Williams. He has great stats, but he doesn't hold any major records. You get the idea
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Quote from: sbr on January 19, 2013, 08:14:54 PM
IMO, Stan Musial is one of the most underrated ballplayers today.
He's not underrated if everybody knows who he is. Stats speak for themselves.